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“…at the beginning of July of that year (1845), the potato crop promised remarkably well—the weather was then dry and hot.”
–Cecil Woodham-Smith
“A mist rose up out of the sea and you could hear a voice talking near a mile off across the stillness of the earth. It was the same for three days or more, and then, when the fog lifted, you could begin to see the tops of the potato stalks lying over as if the life was gone out of them. And that was the beginning of the great trouble and the famine that destroyed Ireland.”
–a farmer’s recollection
(sound elements)
Una Bhan, sung by Breda Maycock, is a well-known caoineadh, or lament, in the sean nós tradition. The song tells the story of Una Bhan and Tomas Laidir, whose love for each other ended tragically. Ms. Maycock learned it from the Connemara singer Máire Áine Ní Dhonnchadha. Recorded in Dublin, 2007.
A farmer’s recollection, read by Simon Ó Hora, is a contemporary account of the famine, and was recorded in Clifden, County Galway, in July 2007. It is a description of the first signs of the failure of the potato crop.
Tá Na Páipéir á Saighneáil, sung by Seamus Ó Flaherty, age 7, recorded June 2007 at the Ard National School, Carna, Galway. This is a traditional sean nós song sung from the point of view of a young woman whose true love has just signed enlistment papers. She despairs of ever seeing him again
Díor Crionniod Liomsa Ór, sung by Aodán McGlynn, recorded June 2007 at Clifden Town Hall, Clifden, Galway
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